Hayden @ 11 months

 Here's our little Hayden boy at 11 months old. I am a week late posting these, but I seriously can't believe that he is going to be a year old next month!

Hayden is such a sweet sweet baby

He is still a great eater and eats whatever I put in his mouth.

He is a great Sleeper. Sleeps through the night (7:30pm-7ish am, depending on if we have to drive Mason to school) and takes a morning nap and afternoon nap.

He is a bit of a momma's boy.

He is now doing the normal crawl and not the army crawl anymore.

He can pull himself up to anything, but doesn't stand by himself.

He loves when we sing patty cakes and especially loves to "toss it in the oven"

Has 4 teeth, 2 top and 2 bottom. And has a big gap between the top ones.

He hates to stay still to get dress or change a diaper.

He loves being outside, going for walks or swimming or playing at the park

Mason's Seventh [7th] Birthday

 Mason actually got to celebrate his birthday for 2 days. Drew had to work all day on Saturday (his actual birthday) but had Friday off, so we celebrated on Friday with Dad, then had a party on Saturday with Friends. 

Friday we got to go to school and take Mason his favorite lunch...McDonalds! And also bring cupcakes to his class.

 

When he got home from school we had a scavenger hunt for him to find one of his presents

 A New Bike!

 Then he choose to go to Chuck-E-Cheese's for dinner

 He also opened the rest of his presents from us...

a little excited about the Ninjago boat,

 and more ninjago stuff from Tanner and Hayden

I think he liked the money rope!

After Chuck-E-Cheese we came home and had a movie night.

 Saturday Morning he woke up to this...

(Okay real story, he woke up and crawled under this and woke me up and said I knew you would want to get a picture of me running though my door so I waited:)

 Opening cards and presents from grandma and grandpas!

 Then in the afternoon we had a pool party with some friends

 I got this little game idea from family fun (made from pool noodles). The kids had to throw a ball through the hoops and each color had a different point value.

 Singing Happy Birthday and eating cupcakes and treats!

Mother of the year forgot to light the candles and have him blow them out! I brought all the stuff, just failed to actually put the candles on and have him blow them out. So Sad:(

I don't think he cared though!

 He spent a lot of the day building this beauty, Ninjago Destiny Bounty! 

{I love the total Kool-Aide mustache in this picture!}

All in all not a bad two day birthday celebration!

Party Details

 Here are a few details from Mason's Birthday Pool Party!

Mason Turns 7!

 Happy Birthday to my Handsome 7 year old! 

Do I really have a 7 year old!! I can hardly believe it! 

I feel so lucky and blessed to have this cute kid in my life. He is so smart, a great friend, an awesome older brother and such a good example to his little brothers. He is always up for having fun and an all around awesome boy! We love you Mason bud! 

Happy Happy Birthday!

How does your Garden Grow?

A couple of weeks ago we planted our first garden. Mason and Tanner were so excited about this and loved every step of it. They were great little helpers!

Getting the spot all ready to build the planter box

Such hard workers!

Planter box all done and first tomato plant in

These are all the tomato plants. We did a few cherry tomatoes and a few regular tomatoes

Mason made these markers so we wouldn't mix up what plant was what!

We also did green beans

and carrots and also some jalapenos in the back

So far the garden is doing well. We also did two strawberry plants in a separate planter and we have had a nice red strawberry come. Hopefully we will have a plentiful garden in a few months!! If not we will have two sad boys!